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procuring my bridge pickup for my red-black-white Frankenstrat. Although the humbucker is angled, should I use the normal pole spaced humbucker or the trembucker spacing?

Normal spaced


The reason you angle it is so the stings line up on the pole pieces. Low E over the slug, high E over the screw.

Byproduct is killer low end.

If you got trembucker, no reason to angle it.

Assuming you weren't building a Frankenstein replica, at least on a visual level. Would you be sacrificing tone by getting a trembucker and not slanting it?

It also seems to me that the pickup is not angled as sharply on the black and white version of the Frankenstein with the black pickguard as it is in the famous red-black and white version with no pickguard...am I wrong about that?

reg spaced, for two reasons first if you are going to angle it it will line up better and reason two is eddie used a reg spaced and there IS a diff in sound between the two,i own both

Marshall SL12301 wrote:reg spaced, for two reasons first if you are going to angle it it will line up better and reason two is eddie used a reg spaced and there IS a diff in sound between the two,i own both

Clips of the difference between the two?...I mean the difference between a trembucker mounted straight and a Gibson spaced pickup mounted slanted. I know it is apples and oranges, but Ed did just end up putting his pickups straight from the 5150 guitar onwards...

garbeaj wrote:

Marshall SL12301 wrote:reg spaced, for two reasons first if you are going to angle it it will line up better and reason two is eddie used a reg spaced and there IS a diff in sound between the two,i own both

Clips of the difference between the two?...I mean the difference between a trembucker mounted straight and a Gibson spaced pickup mounted slanted. I know it is apples and oranges, but Ed did just end up putting his pickups straight from the 5150 guitar onwards...

no i was stating that the reg spaced pus and the tremspaced sound different from each other. the trem spaced pu's are wound hotter for instance i have a JB reg and TB4JB and the TB4 is 17.7K and the reg JB is only 16.2K

mdc1 wrote:procuring my bridge pickup for my red-black-white Frankenstrat. Although the humbucker is angled, should I use the normal pole spaced humbucker or the trembucker spacing?

Sorry to sound like an ass here but dude, if you're doing a VH guitar, do what Ed did and use what Ed used. After all, you're into that sound for a reason, right? Normal spacing it should be.

Marshall SL12301 wrote:

garbeaj wrote:

Marshall SL12301 wrote:reg spaced, for two reasons first if you are going to angle it it will line up better and reason two is eddie used a reg spaced and there IS a diff in sound between the two,i own both

Clips of the difference between the two?...I mean the difference between a trembucker mounted straight and a Gibson spaced pickup mounted slanted. I know it is apples and oranges, but Ed did just end up putting his pickups straight from the 5150 guitar onwards...

no i was stating that the reg spaced pus and the tremspaced sound different from each other. the trem spaced pu's are wound hotter for instance i have a JB reg and TB4JB and the TB4 is 17.7K and the reg JB is only 16.2K

WTF?! I wonder why the trembucker version is hotter? Maybe it was just a variance in that particular pickup...

But I seem to recall that when asked why he stopped slanting the pickup (from the 5150 guitar onwards) Ed said "I guess I just stopped caring"...I guess it depends on which guitar and tone you are trying to replicate...

Trembuckers are hotter due to the larger bobbins they have to accommadate the wider spacing of the poles

Marshall SL12301 wrote:Trembuckers are hotter due to the larger bobbins they have to accommadate the wider spacing of the poles

Aha! So a trembucker version of an SD '59 would be like a P.A.F. but very slightly hotter?

Aha! So a trembucker version of an SD '59 would be like a P.A.F. but very slightly hotter?

That is correct!